Theory Quotes

Everyone who becomes a psychotherapist eventually adopts a theory that suits his needs.

On tight money: It reflects a reversion to the old idea that the tree can be fertilized at the top instead of at the bottom - the old trickle-down theory.

Jack's [Ma Yun ] theory is that whoever controls data controls the world.

We must... maintain that mathematical geometry is not a science of space insofar as we understand by space a visual structure that can be filled with objects - it is a pure theory of manifolds.

Classical physics has been superseded by quantum theory: quantum theory is verified by experiments. Experiments must be described in terms of classical physics.

Theories pass. The frog remains.

Every great artist raises art to a science, and every great scientist raises science to an art, hence we have Michelangelo's David and Einstein's Theory of Relativity.

I would say that, intellectually, Catholicism had no more impact on me than did social theory.

Without theory there is nothing to modify or learn.

If the evidence says you're wrong, you don't have the right theory. You change the theory, not the evidence.

There is a tendency for people to say evolution is only a theory. That is inappropriate.

It is a test of true theories not only to account for but to predict phenomena.

I'm not a big theory person. So when I get asked questions that demand serious statements, I just make it up.

You cannot coherently affirm the Christian-truth claim and the dominant model of evolutionary theory at the same time.

It is the fundamental theory of all the more recent American law...that the average citizen is half-witted, and hence not to be trusted to either his own devices or his own thoughts.

The supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a simple datum of experience.

It is not enough for theory to describe and analyze, it must itself be an event in the universe it describes.

Theory of the true civilization. It is not to be found in gas or steam or table turning. It consists in the diminution of the traces of original sin.

Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of memory only, like those empirical physicians who have mere practice without theory.

Evolutionary theory informs our understanding of some frankly inexcusable social behavior and renders it perfectly normal.

If x is the population of the United States and y is the degree of imbecility of the average American, then democracy is the theory that x times y is less than y

The electron is a theory. But the theory is so good we can almost consider them real.

Kansas is a piece of real estate that completely disproves the theory of roundness as a quality of the planet earth.

What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks up his pen, and it begins to concern him again as soon as he lays it down.

You know, I have a theory about Charlie Haughey. If you give him enough rope, he'll hang you.

Look at the size of the universe and look at what we're discovering about string theory. There's a wide-eyed sense of we're just getting started here.

My theory is to enjoy life, but my practice is against it.

A Mathematician is someone who can take a cup of coffee and turn it into a theory.

The theory of modern education is that you need a general education before you specialize. And I think to some extent, before you're going to be a great stock picker, you need some general education.

The primary rule of business success is loyalty to your employer. That's all right as a theory. What is the matter with loyalty to yourself?

In order to disprove the assertion that all crows are black, one white crow is sufficient.

Some string theorists prefer to believe that string theory is too arcane to be understood by human beings, rather than consider the possibility that it might just be wrong.

To be successful, innovation is not just about value creation, but value capture.

The history of atomism is one of reductionism – the effort to reduce all the operations of nature to a small number of laws governing a small number of primordial objects.

The majority of people are not willing to risk what they have built for the opportunity to have something better.

In reality the universe has no geometry.

The real challenge is for each of us to determine where we feel we can make the most impact.

At the heart of all sales and marketing is the ability to create demand even in the absence of logic.

There is no complete theory of anything.

I'm a bit of a romantic. In theory!

An average idea enthusiastically embraced will go farther than a genius idea no one gets.

The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.

Topology and number theory are my faves.

The powerful notion of entropy, which comes from a very special branch of physics … is certainly useful in the study of communication and quite helpful when applied in the theory of language.

I never had a policy about marriage. I got married very young in life and I always think in all relationships, I've always thought that it's counterproductive to have a theory on that.

Our theories are the weakest part of what we say. What we're working from is the fact of an experience which we need to make sense of.

Psychotherapy theory turns it all on you: you are the one who is wrong. If a kid is having trouble or is discouraged, the problem is not just inside the kid; it's also in the system, the society.

The theory of interest was wrapped in utter obscurity, until Hume and Smith dispelled the vapor.

There is a mask of theory over the whole face of nature.

If the masses are not thrown a few novels , they may react by throwing up a few barricades.